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The Home Office: Terrorism arrests in Britain hit record high, up 68%


RT
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:44 UTC
Police officers
© Anthony Devlin / ReutersPolice officers prepare to carry out a raid in Pimlico, London August 11, 2011
The number of people arrested for terrorism offenses has hit a record high in the UK, according to official figures.

The Home Office said there were 379 arrests in the past 12 months to June in Britain, a 68 percent increase on the 226 recorded in the same period last year.


It is the highest number recorded since records began in 2001 following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US.
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Children of Deir ez-Zor back to school after ISIS siege is breached


RT
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:12 UTC
Syrian children at school
© Ruptly
Schools in the liberated areas of Deir ez-Zor city have started the new school year in relative peace after Damascus breached the Islamic State terrorists' siege and sent much-needed humanitarian aid to the population who suffered years of blockade.

Most of the schools in the city of Deir ez-Zor have been destroyed over more than two years of the terrorist blockade of the city. As the siege dragged on, thousands of students were deprived of pursuing their studies.

Some learners left school because there were none to attend, while others decided to work in order to support their families. A few students however, chose to continue their schooling, but under trying conditions and amidst constant IS shelling.
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McDonald's worker arrested after trying to flush newborn down toilet

Veronica Rocha
Los Angeles Times
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:51 UTC
McDonald's
A McDonald's cashier is facing an attempted murder charge after giving birth to a boy while at work and then trying to flush the newborn down a toilet inside the Redwood City restaurant, prosecutors said.

Sarah Lockner was working as a cashier at the McDonald's restaurant on Chestnut Street on the evening of Sept. 4 when she complained of stomach pain, according to the San Mateo County district attorney's office.

During her night shift, prosecutors said, the 25-year-old Redwood City woman visited the restaurant's bathroom multiple times, to the concern of a co-worker.
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Health

Most Americans favor single-payer healthcare, unless it means increased government control and higher taxes

Eric Boehm
Reason.com
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:31 UTC
Obamacare Healthcare protest
© Mike Blake / Reuters
Erik Mcgregor/ZUMA Press/NewscomPublic support for single-payer health care is growing-in fact, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in July found a majority of Americans support it-but that increase comes with an important caveat. Most Americans only want government-run health care until they find out that it means the government will run their health care.

I thought about that this morning while reading J.D. Tuccille's excellent piece asking, "Are You Sure You Want Medicare For All?" He walks through the various ways government-run health care seems to be appealing-it means families no longer have to bear the cost of heartbreaking medical disasters on their own, for example-and the far greater number of reasons why government-run health care would be a fiscal, political, and medical disaster:

Comment: What is single-payer health care?

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Overkill?: Texas counters post-storm uptick in mosquitoes by calling in U.S. Air Force

Devika Krishna Kumar
Reuters
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:55 UTC
Texas flood
With Zika, West Nile fever and other mosquito-carried diseases a risk as floodwaters recede, Texas launches spraying effort

Texas has launched aerial attacks on mosquitoes swarming coastal regions of the state and threatening to spread disease and hinder disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo planes began spraying insecticides over three eastern Texas counties over the weekend and will expand to other areas over the next two weeks, officials from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said. About 1.85 million acres have been treated as of Tuesday, according to the department.
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Amherst College won't remove 'insensitive' anti-war banner hung on 9/11 anniversary, citing 'free speech'


RT
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:33 UTC
Amherst College
Amherst College has slammed a "deeply insensitive" anti-war banner which emerged on the 9/11 anniversary, while the institution remembered those killed in the attacks. However, the college says it will not be removed, falling under the right to free speech.

The banner - which was unfurled on Monday, the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks - hangs in a prominent location, over the doorway of a campus dining hall.

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people," the banner reads, using a quote that is largely attributed to American historian Howard Zinn.

"In honor of those killed and displaced by America's so called 'war on terror'," reads a second quote.

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Lost the plot: Charlottesville activists target founding father Thomas Jefferson


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:01 UTC
Statue of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia
© Tim Dodson / The Cavalier Daily / ReutersStatue of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, US.
A group of 100 student activists at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have covered the statue of its founder Thomas Jefferson with a black tarp, calling him a racist and a rapist and sending a list of demands to the administration.

Chanting "F*** White Supremacy" and "Black Lives Matter," the activists covered up the statue of one of America's founding fathers on Tuesday evening.

A cardboard sign held up against the shrouded figure by one of the protesters read "TJ is a racist rapist," a reference to Jefferson being a slave owner who allegedly raped his domestic slave Sally Hemmings.
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134% increase in homelessness since Tories gained power


RT
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:54 UTC
homeless in UK
© Terry Harris / Global Look Press
The number of homeless people in the UK has increased by a staggering 134 percent since the Tories came into government in 2010, according to the government's spending watchdog.

A damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) reveals that the number of households in temporary accommodation has increased by 60 percent in the past six years, affecting 73 percent more youngsters than in March 2011.

It prompted accusations by the NAO that the government has proceeded with a "light touch" approach to tackling the crisis which cannot be considered efficient.

A snapshot of last autumn also revealed that 4,134 people were recorded as rough sleepers, a 134-percent hike since the Conservatives gained power, while there was an increase of 48 percent in the number of families being assessed as eligible for temporary accommodations by councils.
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Advocates of 'global warming' theory increasingly want to punish skeptics - especially after recent hurricanes

Valerie Richardson
Washington Times
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Judith Curry
Climate scientist Judith Curry may be a voice of reason among the torrent of 'global warming!' screamers.
Calls to punish global warming skepticism as a criminal offense have surged in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but it hasn't discouraged climate scientists like Judith Curry.

A retired Georgia Tech professor, she argued on her Climate Etc. website that Irma, which hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Saturday, was fueled in large part by "very weak" wind shear and that the hurricane intensified despite Atlantic Ocean temperatures that weren't unusually warm.

That is the kind of talk that could get policymakers who heed her research hauled before the justice system, if some of those in the climate change movement have their way.

"Climate change denial should be a crime," declared the Sept. 1 headline in the Outline. Mark Hertsgaard argued in a Sept. 7 article in the Nation, titled "Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us," that "murder is murder" and "we should punish it as such."

Comment: These advocates of the 'global warming' hypothesis are beginning to sound a lot like the 'Antifa' of the "science" world! How soon before they start physically attacking the skeptics??

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Berkeley, CA: Police have go-ahead to use pepper spray on individuals at violent protests

Paul Elias
Sacramento Bee
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:35 UTC
pepperspraying
© San Jose Mercury News/APApril 15, 2017: Pepper spray used on anti and pro-Donald Trump protesters in Berkeley, CA.
The Berkeley City Council on Tuesday gave police permission to use pepper spray to repel demonstrators attacking officers and others during violent protests of the kind that have repeatedly hit the city this year. The 6-3 vote by the council came ahead of another planned speech Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley.

The city banned pepper spray in 1997 as a crowd-control weapon, though most law enforcement agencies permit officers to use it to disburse violent crowds, Berkeley police Chief Andrew Greenwood said. Greenwood sought such permission at an emergency council meeting, saying it is preferable to batons and tear gas, which the city is allowed to use but disburses far wider than pepper spray. The council rejected its use for crowd control Tuesday, but agreed to modify its ban and expand police powers to use it.

The council said pepper spray "shall not be used as a crowd control technique to disperse a crowd or move a crowd," the motion stated. "Police may use pepper spray upon specific individuals within a crowd who are committing acts of violence upon police or others."

Berkeley police carry small canister of pepper spray for use on individual suspects. But the police chief said officers need permission to use bigger canisters if necessary.

Officers were preparing for violence as soon as Thursday when conservative political commentator and former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro appears on campus and again later this month when conservative figures have been invited to speak. "It is a request made of urgency," Greenwood said.

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